So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.

Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.

wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them

this is the '10 year mutuals you've never spoken to once' site

10 year redraw of an old favorite

Ask Not Why The Bell Tolls - MLP oneshot

Guess who wrote a new fic!!! It's an about 3.5k long comedy raritwi fic based off the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

thanks for reading!!!

Signal boosting because it’s a good story!!!!!!!

just learned Crimson Lips horse edition has been circulating in military offices and resulting in people there being genuinely surprised they liked it and positively changing their mindset on sex worker

and i cannot describe the level to which i dont even know how to process this

on one hand, fuck yes, crimson is doing what i wanted it to do which is bring good positive sex worker rep and change people's minds on it on the other hand what the fuck whaytT HE FUCK WHAT????

Oh by the by, please read this beautiful piece of art. It’s REALLY GOOD

on a separate note, if there were groups here, i'd start one called

"oh my god why does this suddenly have way more notes than i expect--ah... punkitt-sama...."

posted the TEra cover art, went away, came back hours later and ah... punkitt-sama.............

Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly Bitter and True

It's happening, guys! It's a little late, but I finally got some inspo for my IYGALL 10th anniversary story thanks to @rarilight. Her latest story gave me a lot of ideas on what Coco's life might be like 10 years later and I really appreciate the feedback she's given me on this one. I may or may not end up retconning some things (I kinda wanna make this a story about Coco being an empty nester, so her second child with Scene may be cut) and I don't even really want to touch ships with a 10-foot pole, but otherwise, I'm excited to explore where everyone is after the events of the original. So check out my anniversary oneshot on my FiMFiction account (Quillamore), coming soon!

Fun fact: I very nearly called this story "All Was Well" as a way of clowning on That Author Who Shall Not Be Named and her notoriously terrible epilogue, lol. Something about making those the last words of her series and not exploring the characters beyond the nextgen kids and stuff never sat right with me, even as a child (and of course even less about her sits right with me now that I'm an adult). I hope to make this a much better, more fulfilling epilogue.

I always did say that if I were to write a sixth act for IYGALL, I'd call it "Love Like You" after the Steven Universe song. Now I finally get the chance to, thanks to you. You all are the "you" in my title and I can't thank you enough for the 10 years I had with you on FiMFiction.

To quote PBS, this program is made possible by viewers like you. Thank you.